Anyone born in the early 70's finds Pokemon a horrifying combination of incomprehensible and boring. We also stopped playing Magic:the Gathering when they ruined the value of our Icy Manipulators in Ice Age.

Born in 1978 and that's the best description of Pokemon I've ever read. I play a lot of video games, and I could give you a basic description of probably a couple hundred games. I have no fucking idea what Pokemon is about. You're collecting Pokemon, I guess? Are they your slaves? Why do you make them fight for your amusement?

The usual progression for us 90s kids is to play the game until our thumbs fall off in 3rd/4th grade, pretend to hate it for a few years, and then around senior year of high school rediscover the awesome.

I watched maybe the first season of Power Rangers. I remember making fun of kids watching Spongebob, but that's about it. I watched a bunch of stuff that opened me to being made fun of, so I didn't have a whole lot of room to talk. From what I've heard and from the little I've seen, I was probably wrong in my judgement of Spongebob.

1980 here! The only reason I know about Pokemon is because a little girl I used to babysit in the late '90s looooved them. Now she's as old as I was when I was babysitting her, and that makes me feel old. But at 30, I honestly still feel pretty freaking young :)

One detail worth noting: The first two generations' species were all designed by Ken Sugimori, but after that they let all the Game Freak staffers take turns designing them. Plus, many of the second generation species were planned for gen I, but cut to save some for the sequel.

Fuck you if you only think there are 150 Pokemon. I got Blue version the day it came out and recognize all 649 of them. Why? BECAUSE I STILL FUCKING PLAY POKEMON. True "90's kids" still fucking play Pokemon.

I remember back when I had my first AOL screen name, it was Sabertooth150 and the '150' represented how many Pokemon there were at the time. Needless to say, I was pissed when they released more Pokemon :/.

I hated the part in Pokemon blue where they required you to capture 20 pokemon to move on in the game. I CANNOT HANDLE THAT MANY POKEMON , tens years later and I'm still on the part, also I lost my gameboy color

Born in 1996, and even I feel like this. Though often times, I still find myself buying new Pokémon games, hoping to feel the same way about playing them as I did when I first watched my dad play Pokémon Yellow (and playing the game myself) when I was a little kid.

I'm glad that they kept the franchise going though, because at least we have something to look back to and be happy we were able to enjoy playing RBY.

TL;DR - Not born in early 90s, but I can identify myself with the picture.

Yes, I'm fully aware that there were 151 original Pokemon. However, Mew was not available in the games through conventional means, nor was it listed in guides, FAQs, and other things of that nature. Glad people like this post, though!